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Yankee Reality |  | Artist: Hush Arbors
Label: Ecstatic Peace/£
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 55002
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 001340302
UPC: 837654529034
EAN: 0837654529034
ASIN: B002NACY7M
Release Date: October 12, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Day Before | | • | Lisbon | | • | Fast Asleep | | • | So They Say | | • | One Way Ticket | | • | Coming Home | | • | Sun Shall | | • | Take it Easy | | • | For While You Slept | | • | Devil Made You High |
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| Customer Reviews:
Reality bites....very , very gently . November 13, 2009
russell clarke (halifax, west yorks)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hush Arbors is Keith Wood, a Virginian with a lamenting falsetto, and he is accompanied here with his usual guitarist Leon Dufficy and unusually by Dinosaur JR front man J. Mascis who produces and provides occasional guitar , drums and mellotron. Yankee Reality is Hush Arbors' second album for Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label.
br /Anyone expecting Mascis presence to give the album a jolt of electricity via howling chords and wired feedback is going to be disappointed with this album. Despite also the use of tuba, vox, Wurlitzer, Vibraphone and piano the music rarely raises itself above a courteous stroll .It's polite folk -rock that at its most avant garde gets a little poppy . No envelopes are being pushed or even being nudged civilly here.
br /Yankee Reality is always graciously pleasant but also drifts into soporific terrain a tad too eagerly on occasion . When it perks up a bit like on the blissful jangles of "For While You Slept " or the elegant sliver of nostalgic, psychedelic Americana of "Take It Easy " it becomes more interesting . The hurly burly tumble of "Devil Made You High " ends the album on a tempestuous note and " Lisbon " sort of bookends it with its twanging chords and tumbling percussion.
br /The albums middle section sometimes ambles around in search of inspiration and a memorable tune but essentially becomes an extended fugue of slyly strummed guitars and incipient atmospherics. Not disagreeable but nothing to get too excited about either for the most part . Before that the albums strongest track has all the aforementioned but injects squalls of squirming guitar which disrupts the songs hypnotic reverie most pleasingly. "So They Say " starts like Bon Iver covering the Field Mice and has a plaintive air and amenable longing quality .And I love the mellotron on "Coming Home " , a loose cosmic hoedown.
br /Yankee Reality has a back to basics quality ( akin to Bon Ivers For Emma Forever ) and a tinge of the rustic and that is maybe the Yankee Reality the albums title alludes to. It's not going to give anyone a sonic uppercut , more like pat the listener affably with woolly mittens if the truth be told but even if it does drift aimlessly about some of the time it does have a distinctive serene ambience that render it enervated appeal. I might be damming it with faint praise but praise it I am. After all what else could we expect from a band called Hush Arbors?
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